HPDBC Chapter 49 Mountain and Sea Realm, Part 1
Chapter 49 Mountain and Sea Realm, Part 1
With a casual wave of his hand, Su Fan's illusory dragon vanished. Su Fan breathed a sigh of relief. This ability wasn't bad. Although its direct attack power was average, it wasn't entirely useless. At least if he ever had to work as a special effects artist, he could definitely make a living.
Just like when a monkey learned the somersault cloud, his fellow disciples exclaimed with joy that if they knew this skill, they could work as clerks, deliver documents, and send reports, and they could find food to eat no matter where they were!
Moreover, even when facing a powerful enemy, simply summoning a phantom of a god would be quite impressive and might even intimidate others.
Su Fan didn't feel anything about the suggestion from the Heavenly Dao to stay in another world as the creator god, although that seemed pretty cool.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs divides human needs into five levels: physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs.
Su Fan is also a human being, at least for now, and Maslow's hierarchy of needs still applies to him.
Physiological needs are nothing more than the human need for water, food, and sleep. Su Fan has met these needs because he had saved some money from his previous work. Although it wasn't much, the cost of living in China is not high.
Moreover, the [Unexpected Wealth Compass] helped Su Fan amass a batch of unclaimed wealth over the past period. Although Su Fan is not wealthy, his physiological needs can still be met.
Safety needs are nothing more than personal safety and health needs. China's public security is considered quite good on the planet, so Su Fan can naturally meet those needs.
If Su Fan previously felt insecure because forging artifacts required using lifespan as a medium or fuel, the situation is much better now that emotional crystals can replace his lifespan as fuel.
Even using emotional crystallization as fuel to add life-extending properties to food can potentially make up for lost lifespan.
Ten Emotion Crystals are equivalent to one day of lifespan, and the cost of the life-extending properties is only five times that of the life-extending effect.
For example, if Su Fan needs to add the property of extending the lifespan of an apple by one year, he needs to spend five years of his lifespan as a price, which is about 18,000 emotional crystals.
Although Su Fan is not rich enough to treat emotional crystals like dirt, he now has others helping him collect them, which has greatly increased his collection efficiency. Moreover, with the Mountain and Sea Realm, this gold mine, now blocked, his future looks promising!
Currently, everyone in the world is lacking emotional crystals. Most people use the emotional crystals they collect to pay off their debts. A few exceptions, such as Chen Yang, Jiang He, and Wang Jianguo, do not need to pay off their debts, but they still give their emotional crystals to newcomers.
When he has more money in the future, Su Fan feels it's necessary to invest in creating some extraordinary items to protect himself and enhance his strength.
Social needs are mostly things like friendship, love, and family affection. Perhaps due to the consequences of the previous [Seven Emotions Gourd], or perhaps because Su Fan is naturally a bit cold-hearted, he doesn't feel much.
The need for respect encompasses things like social status and the respect of others. Su Fan naturally possesses this need, which is perhaps why he initially appeared to be knowledgeable about gods, ghosts, and the supernatural in the early stages of the game—he probably hoped to gain respect from others!
The fact that Su Fan didn't simply step out from behind the scenes to the forefront might also be partly due to this factor.
Su Fan now wields considerable influence within the Chinese faction of Qingyu Island, so this aspect is naturally satisfied.
Even recently, Jiang He, as the representative of the Chinese faction of Qingyu Island in the Mountain and Sea Realm, has been working hard to help everyone obtain official status. Being able to eat the food of an official is definitely considered quite respectable in China.
As for the need for self-actualization, for Su Fan, it's roughly about achieving the grand vision promised by Heaven in reality. If that's impossible, he can only leave everything to time.
Besides that, he probably has the "funny person" attribute. Su Fan likes to have fun, such as creating various mythical beasts when building the Mountain and Sea Realm, which is nothing more than implying to others that mythology is not unfounded.
Telling a colossal lie and fooling all of humanity into believing it is incredibly entertaining for those who enjoy entertainment.
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The boundary between mountains and seas, Qingyu Island.
There are now over a hundred people on Qingyu Island, making it much more lively than it was at the beginning.
The hundreds of people were clearly divided into several factions, watching the screens on Qingyu Island showing the participants in the trials.
This first trial involved 100,000 people in the same mirrored world, with 500 people per exam room, totaling 200 screens.
"Speaking of which, the trials are getting more and more intense now. Every one of those who can finally obtain the status of a Qingyu Island resident is a talent selected from one in ten thousand! I wonder if in the future the selection will be one in a million?"
"If 100,000 people participate every day and one person is selected, it would probably take at least two hundred years to get everyone to participate in the trial."
"Being selected to participate in the trial is luck in itself. Those who remain are all elites, all top-tier individuals, except for me!"
"Because we got caught in the rain, we have to tear up everyone else's umbrellas. We can't just offer suggestions about the trial and get a 'Sentiment Crystal' for them; the difficulty of the trial has skyrocketed now!"
"There are already three rounds of trials now, while we only had two back then. Will they add ten rounds in the future? What kind of freaks will be selected in the end?"
"Now, with each newcomer, my status diminishes. After all, the difficulty and prestige increase as you progress, making me seem less capable."
"Being able to get in first only means we were luckier, and luck happens to be a part of strength."
"It's said that eating emotional crystals can enhance mental power. Do you think that once we've paid off our debts, we can evolve into something similar to telekinesis by eating emotional crystals?"
"Didn't the big boss say that each of the eighty-one floating islands is a world in itself? And on the islands at an even higher level, there's this so-called 'List of Wonders of the Mountains and Seas,' which has everything imaginable. If you can think of it, you can find it on the list."
"In the future, I will exchange for twelve talismans: immortality, healing, explosiveness, speed, strength, and invisibility. I will have no weaknesses and lack nothing. At that time, I will be a citizen of the motherland."
"So-so! Even the best twelve talismans are still external things. If it were me, I'd choose to cultivate both magic and martial arts, plus be proficient in alchemy, weapon crafting, formations, talismans, supernatural powers, medicine, and puppetry!"
"Speaking of which, aren't these all extraordinary powers we only imagine? Why can they be exchanged on the Mountain and Sea Wonders List?"
"Perhaps every world is real and true, and in order to evolve, advance, or communicate, a community of consciousness will instinctively reach out to other worlds. Thus, the author takes this information as inspiration, unconsciously receives and records this information, and creates works. Therefore, literary works are not purely fictional, but a projection or record of information from a real other world."
"Whatever the reason, we don't even know the situation in the Mountain and Sea Realm right now, or why we came here."
"It's also possible that the things in the Mountain and Sea Wonders List are things that the Mountain and Sea Wonders List can create, including the world we imagine."